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The 2017 Local Enterprise Office Impact Report has just been published and highlights the breadth of job creation, enterprise support and training that is being delivered by Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs) across the country. ...

In thirteen weeks’ time, the National Ploughing Championships (September 18th – 20th), Europe’s largest outdoor event, returns to Offaly and a small business from Cavan is getting ‘ploughing-ready’ thanks to Local Enterprise Office Cavan....

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed TD and Minister for Trade, Business & Employment, EU Digital Single Market & Data Protection Pat Breen TD today marked the fifth year of the Food Academy programme, which is expected to generate €50 million in sales annually for emerging Irish food producers within the next five years....

The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, T.D., launched the Workplace Innovation Toolkit, at the Enterprise Excellence Conference in Croke Park yesterday 23rd May. The Workplace Innovation toolkit provides an online questionnaire designed to facilitate self-evaluation of the organisation’s capacity to be an innovative workplace...

Case Studies

Ireland's growing reputation as a destination for customer service contact centres has opened up a gap in the market for local suppliers. Gordon O'Neill, co-founder of cloud-based telecoms provider Goldfish in County Wicklow, tells us how this industry is providing new opportunities for SMEs
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After more than a decade working in accountancy and recruitment, Des Goldrick decided to set-up his own craft beer enterprise. Today, he’s brewing up a storm in his own business, as he takes us on a tour of the Carlingford Brewing Company in County Louth
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